If busy people only get busier, the Brown Bookshelf members are in trouble.
You submitted names. We did the literary background checks. And after sixty days of intense research, we’re proud to present the 28 authors and four illustrators we’re highlighting for 28 Days Later.
Did your favorite jewel or best kept secret make the list?
Key:
Authors in bold are vanguard authors
Illustrator spotlights are in italics
Feb 1 Christopher Paul Curtis – Elijah of Buxton
Feb 2 Michelle Meadows – The Way The Storm Stops
Feb 3 Dana Davidson – Played
Feb 4 Rita Williams-Garcia – No Laughter Here
Feb 5 G. Neri – Chess Rumble & Sean Qualls – Phillis’s Big Test
Feb 6 Janice N. Harrington – The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Feb 7 Eleanora E. Tate – Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
Feb 8 Patricia McKissack – The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll
Feb 9 M. Sindy Felin – Touching Snow
Feb 10 Jabari Asim – Daddy Goes To Work
Feb 11 Mildred D. Taylor – The Road To Memphis
Feb 12 Nina Crews – The Neighborhood Mother Goose & Leonard Jenkins – Sweet Land of Liberty
Feb 13 Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu – The Shadow Speaker
Feb 14 Allison Whittenberg – Sweet Thang
Feb 15 Walter Dean Myers – Game
Feb 16 Tonya Bolden – George Washington Carver
Feb 17 Troy Cle – The Marvelous Effect
Feb 18 Eloise Greenfield – The Friendly Four
Feb 19 Sundee T. Frazier – Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It & John Holyfield – Bessie Smith & the Night Riders
Feb 20 Carole Boston Weatherford – I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
Feb 21 Karen English – Nikki & Deja
Feb 22 Coe Booth – Tyrell
Feb 23 Irene Smalls – My Pop Pop and Me
Feb 24 Stephanie Perry Moore – Prayed Up: Perry Skky Jr. #4
Feb 25 Kyra E. Hicks, Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria
Feb 26 Celise Downs – Dance Jam Productions & Shane Evans- When Harriet Met Sojourner
Feb 27 Valerie Wilson Wesley – Willimena Rules!: 23 Ways to mess up Valentine’s Day
Feb 28 Sherri L. Smith – Sparrow
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Nice. But you should do a jpg of the poster. Most people won’t have the fonts needed for this poster to show up complete in PDF form…
Hopefully it is just me, but I’m getting an error on your PDF poster download where it can’t recognize the text. I’ll check back to see if others are having issues too! Great list!
Thanks for the feedback. Please pardon my mess while I try to fix this file. Thought I had all the bugs worked out over the weekend.
Just checking in to say I’ve had issues too. But am now wondering if it’s my Acrobat, as you pointed out earlier Don. The version you sent me over the weekend loaded immediately. But I was on my laptop.
It wouldn’t load for me at work but here at the library, it loads just fine and looks great.
Thanks all. The poster should work now. I could offer up a jpg image, but I’m afraid the small text will be bitmapped and unreadable. The pdf version that is now available does not have any fonts…all text has been converted to outlines and should read and print sharp. If anyone else has problems downloading, please speak up, and I will go about finding another fix.
This is fabulous! We will get a bonus (surprise) for leap day?
Yeah!!! Can’t wait to post! You guys are so awesome and I am proud to be a partner with such a wonderful literary group of people. This is great…